5-week drug trial ends with guilty verdicts for 2 Nashville men

2:27 AM,
Apr. 3, 2013

Written by

Jer?Mykeal McCoy
| The Tennessean

Two Nashville men were found guilty in U.S. District Court on Tuesday on multiple counts of drugs and robbery conspiracy after a five-week trial and a week of jury deliberation.

Leonard "Hype" Baugh and Omega "Nino" Harris, both 34, were convicted in a major gang case that initially involved 18 defendants and 22 counts that included drug conspiracy, robbery and attempting to help drug kingpin Jamal Shakir escape from the Davidson County Criminal Justice Center by helicopter in 2009.

Harris was found guilty on three counts: felon in possession of a firearm, conspiracy to sell cocaine, and ...